How does Alfred Noyes create tension and mood in The Highwayman? The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes tells a tragic love story when a beautiful young girl called Bess and her love, the Highwayman’s relationship gets ruined by an unattractive ostler named Tim. Tim’s jealousy gets so extreme that he tries to kill the highwayman with a plan. It all goes wrong and Bess and the highwayman both get killed. In this essay I will explain the various methods to create tension and mood that the poet uses.
Not only can myths be used to explain nature and our own physical existence, but they can also have contextual meaning to illustrate a theme or dilemma. William Shakespeare used mythology and lore in his plays to portray imagery, contrast characters and foreshadow various aspect of the plot in an effort to emphasized suspense and ameliorate the play. In Hamlet, Shakespeare often blended mythological and biblical references into his literary work as a means of grasping the reader’s attention to a specific theme or dilemma within the play. Mythology and lore thrive on momentous suspense and emotional attachment, but what literary techniques do authors use to achieve this? Authors often use vivid descriptions and sensory enriched words to attract one of the five major senses (hearing, touch, taste, smell and sight) to convey an action, image or event; the lure of the imagery is what keeps the reader attuned.
His poem captivates his readers or listeners and sends them on a fictional road that describes how each situations outcome may be altered by the choices being made and how a conclusion will be different every time. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” illustrates the act of choosing and dealing with life’s “speed bumps”. According to the author of Journey into Literature R.Wayne Clugston, “Robert Frost’s lyrical style and masterful use of ordinary language and rural settings made his poetry delightful. Building on delight, he engaged in ironic inquiry to give expression to complex ideas and questions that define the human spirit” (as cited in Clugston, 2010, section 2.2) “The Road Not Taken” is easily comprehended because most people experience this identical state of mind dealing with day to day issues. Is this right or wrong?
I believe that Browning uses this repetition to show the readers how much can change in a short period of time and how someone may 'fall from grace'. Browning uses the senses in order to create atmosphere within the poem. In the first verse, Browning uses sight in order to attract the reader. It talks about the roofs 'heaving and swaying' and the
How does Williams create dramatic tension in scene one? Tennessee Williams creates dramatic tension in the first scene of his play “a streetcar named desire” through the means of many methods. Tension is evident in the dialogue between the protagonists. Williams also cleverly uses stage direction and grammar and punctuation with blissful ease and impressive mastery. Firstly, I would like to examine William's use of grammar and punctuation and how it is effective at creating dramatic tension.
Despite the general opinion that “Hamlet” contains the weakest women in Shakespeare’s works, the unraveling of the main plot can only be attributed to them. The first case in which we see woman as the catalyst of the play is with Gertrude being one of the main motivations for Claudius murdering his brother. Once Hamlet died, Claudius and Gertrude quickly exchanged wedding vows, maintaining the stability of Denmark during the unexpected death of King Hamlet. Hamlet continuously alludes that he knows what Claudius has done, and seeks to make him feel remorseful for his actions. He achieves this goal through a reenactment of Hamlet’s death, and the exchange of everlasting love between ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Gertrude’, played by the actors at Elsinore.
But though alcohol can cause one to be angry and abusive, it is also know to make you dance and sing. I believe in “My Papa’s Waltz” Theodore Roethke wanted people to see both the negative and the positive side of what this poem is conveying. This first way to look at this poem is to think of it in the negative since. From the very first stanza Roethke begins to use a very strong selection of words. Words like death, batter, scraped and beat are some of these strong words.
In the text ‘Romeo an Juliet’ directed by Baz Luhrmann several production techniques are used effectively. These are costumes, camera work and music. This essay will describe these effects and explain how these techniques are used effectively. Costumes are used effectively in the film “Romeo and Juliet’ to portray different characters. An example of this is at the Capulet ball where we see Romeo dressed as a chivalrous knight in shining armour, and this costume shows us his sense of chivalry and fair play.
This poem “Where I come from”, is very interesting. The poet, Elizabeth Brewster, uses a lot of imagery to make us think in a very unique way. By using imagery, the poet is trying to make us aware that the place a person is brought up from would have an impact on what is going on through their minds. Take for example, in stanza one, the poet uses words and phrases like, “atmosphere of smog”, “museum smell”, “smell of work”, “factories”, “chromium-plated office”, “smell of subways crowded at rush hours”. What we see similar from these phrases are the word “smell”.
The techniques that Sassoon has used in the poems are: imagery, simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering, but it always leads us to think more deeply about life for the following reasons: Firstly, it creates emotion; secondly, it shows us the brutality of war; and finally, hardships faced by soldiers and also by showing about death. Through this it becomes evident that a good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering because it creates emotion. Emotion refers to a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.